MARY ELIZABETH COBBS-BRANDON

Mary Elizabeth Cobbs-Brandon entered into rest on Wednesday, December 26, 2012 at Vassar Brothers Medical Center, Poughkeepsie, NY. She was 80 years old.

Mary was born August 27, 1932 in Halifax County, VA to the late Nathaniel Cobbs and Mary Howard Cobbs.

Mary attended Brandon Chapel School in Brandon Chapel, VA where she met and married Fatty Brandon. Mary was nicknamed "Pig" for she always had a lot of spunk. She became an entrepreneur purchasing, running, and managing her very own farm, for most of her adult life. Mary was very industrious, independent, and business minded.

In 1986 Mary moved to Newburgh, NY to care for her beloved sister "Liza". Mary soon became ill and spent the latter part of her life in Poughkeepsie, NY with her late son, Grant Lee, and recent years at the Renaissance Skilled Nursing Facility in Hyde Park, NY.

Mary was lighthearted. She loved to laugh, cook, clean, chew gum, eat butter pecan ice cream ("the kind with the goodies in it", as she called it), listen to good soul/gospel music, and dance. She was known in the nursing home as, "the wheel chair dancer".

Of all the things Mary forgot over the years, she never forgot her brothers, her sisters, her son, Grant Lee, her infectious smile, how to be sweet and how to count her money.

Mary was a lifetime member of her family church, Brandon Chapel.

Left to cherish her memory are her nieces, nephews, and a host of relatives and friends. She was preceded in death by her husband, Faddie Brandon, her son, Grant Lee Cobbs; four brothers: Pete Cobbs, Nathaniel "Buck" Cobbs, John Lee Cobbs, and Grant "Lester" Cobbs, and sister, Virginia Eliza Hughes.

Mrs. Cobbs will lie in repose from 9 to 10 a.m. Saturday, January 5 at Rhodes Funeral Homes Chapel, 259 Walsh Avenue, New Windsor, NY. Services will be at 10 a.m. at the chapel. Minister Olivia West will officiate. Interment will be at Woodlawn Cemetery, New Windsor, NY.

Professional services are entrusted to Rhodes Funeral Homes, 43 Fairview Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601. "Committed To Being The Very Best." Call us anytime at 845-452-2894 or 845-452-6143.